The Government Protection Bureau (Biuro Ochrony Rządu) is a formation subordinated to the Ministry of Interior Affairs and Administration, employing over a thousand people. It protects, among others, the president (for life), the prime minister and deputy prime ministers, marshals of the Sejm and Senate (chambers of the Polish parliament), ministers of national

defence and interior affairs, the chief of the President’s Office as well as foreign delegations.  The Government Protection Bureau may check the identity of persons creating a direct threat to life or human health, as well as damage to property and detain them. It may

perform personal controls and search luggage, check cargoes at ports and railway stations, inside any means of land, air and water transport, it may request the necessary help from any governmental institution, and territorial self-government as well as economic units, it may address social organisations for help, and in sudden cases it may address individuals. In the event of insubordination to any given instructions, it may use means of direct coercion: